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https://twistislamophobia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Islamophobia_Germany.jpg1200627Scholar Farid Hafez, who has recently faced a prosecution campaign by the government of Austria, asks himself in this article (originally published by the newspaper the Middle East Eye) about the reasons behind the growing stances against Political Islam that are being adopted by public authorities all across Europe. A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of political Islam. From France’s fight against “Islamo-leftism” to Austria’s battle against “political Islam”, Muslims and Muslim anti-racist civil society groups are coming under more and more pressure from state authorities. In both countries, governments have shut down NGOs and mosques, limited freedom of expression, and raided homes and institutions under the pretext of the “war on terror”. Such measures intensified after terrorist attacks were carried out last year. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) appears set to follow in the footsteps of French President Emmanuel Macron and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. While Macron was met with harsh international criticism for his anti-Muslim legislation, Kurz’s initiatives went nearly unnoticed. But they all seem to follow the same playbook, claiming to protect the majority of peaceful and law-abiding Muslims while targeting only the “dangerous” Muslims. This crusader rhetoric does not come out of thin air. Statements like these build on a long ...